Ahead of the Covid curve lads
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Rte will brand anyone who attends, especially the sane majority as gemma supporters.
Iām a flu survivor.
Was in bad way for 4 or 5 days one Christmas. Couldnāt get out of bed.
Did the missus do the barbecue that year?
That was before I became a pit master
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Iāve had two bad flus in my life. Got hit with that Aussie one there 3/4 years backs and was in awful state of sweats and fever for about 2-3 days. The other one was when I was in Uni.
I could certainly see how it would cause serious issues to some elderly or in poor health but generally itās a few days penance.
I was playing football at the time I was in Uni and I must have had long flu as it took me about 2/3 months to regain my full level of fitness. My nose would be running like a tap for the first two months back training.
Flu is a very valid comparison with Covid, itās generally mild but can be very serious at times, it generally wonāt effect fit and healthy people adversely but there are rare cases in which it does (eg Christopher Colhoun). Flu is obviously a lot more established and generally people arenāt frightened of it whereas some people are still living in an April 2020 mindset with images of Italy in their head at the original outbreak. Everything was novel and unknown then but we know by now itās not a threat at all realistically if youāre fit and healthy. If you live in fear of the 1 in 20k chance you will get severely ill or die from it, you may stay under the bed.
Iām not scared of the virus or the vaccine really for that matter, I just like to exercise my obstinance into being forced to something that has no benefits and the threats and intimidation used to try and make me do it. I donāt play ball with that and I think itās a much more prevalent in us Ulster folk. People can make their own minds up, trying to force people into doing it is going to be met with resistance.
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A lot of common sense here.
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What a load of shite.
No argument at all as usual.
Youāre a bedwetter with a sharp tongue that pretends to have a social conscience.
You are a hypocrite.
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Any word if any of them are actually sick?
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Youād imagine that would be the most important question but it seems people arenāt allowed have minor short term illnesses any more.
It went out of fashion about two years ago.
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I read the reuters article:
Health authorities said the individuals infected were so far displaying mild symptoms, with none hospitalised.
āIt is still too early to say whether the clinical picture of the disease is different in Omicron infections than in Delta infections,ā Aavitsland said.
āNone of the patients has severe symptoms; none is hospitalised. However, this is not unexpected given the young age of the participants.ā
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I donāt know.
We only heard about this variant 8-9 days ago. Cases take a week to manifest in hospitalisations and three weeks to manifest in deaths.
Weāre going to have to wait for reliable data on this in terms of largely vaccinated populations.
Only heard of. Its entirely possible it has been around for weeks. Possibly got brought to Africa. Only that SA was the first to announce there is a new variant
Ihave to be slightly suspicious of this:
- weāre told omicron has been in Europe, and probably Ireland, since October;
- Weāre also told that it will infect 90 out of 120 full vaccinated people in one night?
I see two possibilities, firstly that it hasnāt been in Europe as long as people think, or secondly that itās not much worse than a cold. Maybe Iām wrong.
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You bollix 
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It doesnāt matter, its all about ācasesā with these fucknuts. Cases going through the roof on the mainland but hospitalizations and deaths plummeting. You wonāt hear that on RTE though
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